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F2FS File-System Runs Great On SDHC Storage

02-21-2013, 03:40 PM

Phoronix: F2FS File-System Runs Great On SDHC Storage

Earlier this week I performed some F2FS file-system benchmarks on the Linux 3.8 kernel with an Intel X25 Solid-State Drive (SSD) compared to the EXT4, Btrfs, and other file-systems. Out today are benchmarks of the Flash-Friendly File-System from an SDHC card on Linux.

Earlier this week I performed some F2FS file-system benchmarks on the Linux 3.8 kernel with an Intel X25 Solid-State Drive (SSD) compared to the EXT4, Btrfs, and other file-systems. Out today are benchmarks of the Flash-Friendly File-System from an SDHC card on Linux.

Yes I think a random 4k test (read/write) would be quite a nice to have to. This is where I have experienced serious problems or severe performance degradation on such as USB sticks or SDHC orCF cards in the past when running filesystems like ext4.
Unfortunately phoronix doe not include this in the benchmark of iozone for 8GB!

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This is excellent engineering. But hardly a surprise, conidering that F2FS has been excplicitly designed for Flash based devices, keeping in mind all the quirks.
And AFAIK, Ext4 and BTRFS are more HDD based in their design. They have to perform well in each type of storage.

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Yeah this is pretty incomprehensive. I can understand EXT4 against others, but the Butter? It's meant for a multitude of mass-storage devices. A low-end replacement entreprisish item and not for singular removable flash discs. FAT and Co, NTFS, EXTies all would have been far more appropriate for removable media benchmark comparison. If time permitted then, yeah sure throw in BTRFS. Does the F2FS even come close to the featurefullness and record keeping/redudancy capabilities of BTRFS in a oranges for oranges 'default' comparison?

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Thanks a lot for testing on a SDHC card. Obviously testing exFAT vs F2FS would be great for SDXC, but I think it is not a good thing to test USB thumb drives. Most come with low-quality TLC memory chips (triple level cells) so it is really not recommended to run an OS from it if it's for more than a couple hours of testing now and then.

I intend to run Lubuntu 13.04 from a Sony memory stick so I guess I will get at least the same performance level.